Improvement in eye-glass supporters



T. C. RICE.

Improvement in Eye-Glass Supporters.

N0.129,170. Patenredrury 16, 1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE.

THOMAS C. RICE, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN EVE-GLASS SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,170, dated July 16,1872.

To allpersoas to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. RICE, of the city and county of Worcester,of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Eye-GlassSupporter; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specilication, and represented in the accompanying drawing, ofwhich- Figure l is-a front elevation, and Fig'. 2 a side view of it.

It is intended to be hooked to the collar or other suitable part of theVest or dress of ai person, and to be used for supporting an eyeglass orother article. capable of being hitched upon the spring-hook making partof the supporter. It consists of an elastic or inelastic hook, A, formedessentially as described, and two sharp or pointed hooks, B C, or a wirebent so as to form such, all being connected together and arranged asshown. The two sharpened hooks have their points extended toward cachother.

In securing the article to a vest-collar one of the hooks B C is rst tobe hitched into the collar, after which the cloth of the collar is to befolded or gathered up between the said hooks, so as to allow the secondof them to be hitched into it in the opposite direction to that of theintroduction of the first one. The hook A, being thus secured to thevest or its collar, m'ay be employed to give support to an eyeglass orpair of spectacles, or any other thing capable of being hooked upon it.

I claim the new article of manufacture described, consisting ofuse asstated.

THOMAS C. RICE.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

